and something to note is that the earning income tax. or and the child tax cut that are up for extension at the end of this year. so things are definitely, appearing right in front of us that we need to work on immediately. with respect to child and senior poverty rates, i think there's also a lesson. senator dodd spoke to this, and jennifer carter, and what we need to do but this. which you can see in 1966, the poverty rate for seniors was much higher than that for kids. and with a lot of focus and a lot of work of mark, mark shriver's dad and other people, we have tackled some of these problems. you can see the poverty rate for seniors, and mark talked about this, is now down to 9%. the poverty rate forget is going back up. what we're calling on a is sort of a focus, focus take us -- particularly on child poverty. in great britain, the blair administration in 1999 decided to tackle child poverty rates. and you can see that their poverty rate when he addressed the issue was much higher than the united states. and you can see that it has